Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Tropical Stonehenge in the Amazon

It appears that the ancients in South America built a stone structure similar to the Stonehenge in England. This one is recently discovered in the jungles of the Amazon. I saw this in my local newspaper and online in "Did ancient Amazonians build a 'Stonehenge'?". The more archaeological discoveries that are made, it appears that ancient and lost civilizations had a lot in common on different continents.

This recent discovery is of yet another unknown civilization that existed in the Amazon. Carbon dating of the material will be done later this year. This will be interesting to see how old these structures are. There is speculation that they might be more than 2000 years old.

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Dropa Stones

In the mountainous areas of Tibet, archaeologists have found these round stones with holes in the middle called Dropa Stones. They look like large modern day phonograph or floppy disks. There are neatly arranged lines on them that have been translated by Chinese scientists but have been banned from publishing their findings.

"The Dropa Stones" origins are unknown and believed to be from extraterrestrials or some unknown ancient civilization. Many of these stones have been found and are believed to be about 12,000 years old.

Until reading about it on the web, I have never even heard of this. The mysteries of the ancients ceases to amaze me. I find more and more information all the time in newspapers and online about lost ancient civilizations or discoveries of mythical cities that turn out to be real.